NEWS CHRISTIAN BAU E R et Israel Officially Labels Syrian Pact A Threat Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel has officially told the United States that it considers the Syrian-Lebanese "brotherhood pact" that was signed last week in Damascus a serious new security threat on its nor- thern border. But Israeli officials denied reports from Lebanon that the Israel Defense Force was massing on the northern border for a pre-emptive strike in response to the Damascus-Beirut pact. The IDF said troops were put on "normal alert" in view of the event, but there were no special military preparations. Reports of an Israeli military buildup were also denied by Timor Goksel, spokesman for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. The pact, officially known as the Brotherhood, Coop- eration and Coordination Ac- cord, was signed May 22 by Presidents Hafez al-Assad of Syria and Elias Hwari of Lebanon. It is referred to in Jerusalem as the "Assad Anschluss." According to the Israelis, it Noble gold. Precious platinum. Tokens offriendship, affection and love. \N DI)/ /VG love 'sin the ait < Hezbollah May Free Israelis, Other Captives Robert ALEXANDER Jewelers AWARDED CERTIFICATE BY GIA IN DIAMOND GRADING 32419 Northwestern Highway Farmington Hills, Michigan 48334 Located between Middlebelt and Fourteen Mile Road 313-855-0040 Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri 10-6 Thurs 10-8 Sat 10-5 A Third Generation of Quality and Tradition in Diamonds and Diamond Jewelry, passed down from Norman Allan BUNDLES & BASKETS S HOWER EXECUTIE A NNIVERSARY SWEET 76 s b20\- 1 POWDER ROOM BASKETS CUSTOMIZED BASKETS R i7orEt iiioustess DAVID BURKE -*a/47-41/14 %S (313) 788-2600 DIANE HAUER 34 FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1991 GEORGANN WOLF amounts to the virtual an- nexation of Lebanon by Syria, comparable to the 1938 "Anschluss" that end- ed the independence of Austria with its incorpora- tion into the German Third Reich. Housing Minister Ariel Sharon observed that Syria's domination of Lebanon opens a "new front, which is closer to important in- dustrial areas in the Haifa Bay district." Defense Minister Moshe Arens said May 22 that by getting Lebanon to sign the pact, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad had managed to do quietly what Saddam Hus- sein had failed to do in war: incorporate within his coun- try a neighboring Arab state. Mr. Arens spoke to reporters during a visit to Kiryat Shmona, near the border with Lebanon. The fear here is that the brotherhood pact will allow Palestinian and other ter- rorist organizations active in Lebanon to move south and launch attacks on Israel under an expanded Syrian umbrella. GEN. SALES MGR. 851.7200 CLASSIFIED GET RESULTS! Call The Jewish News 354-5959 Tel Aviv (JTA) — Govern- ment officials here are cautiously optimistic that Israelis held captive by an Islamic terrorist organiza- tion could be freed in a prisoner exchange. But there is admittedly no proof that more than one of two Israelis reportedly held by the Lebanese group Hez- bollah, or Party of God, is even alive. And there is no information about the fate of another five Israelis cap- tured by various other groups long believed to be controlled by the Islamic fundamentalist group. Defense Minister Moshe Arens, addressing a sym- posium on Iraq held May 26 at Haifa University, said there is room for a certain degree of optimism. He was asked to comment on a report in the May 26 New York Times that Israel and the Iranian-backed Hez- bollah had reached agree- ment in principle over two Israelis held by that group. The report, which came from Beirut, said Hezbollah and Israel reached agree- ment in principle last May 24 to exchange prisoners of war, and that such a move could also spell freedom for American and other Western hostages held in Lebanon. Le Pen Disciple Fined By Court Paris (JTA) — A founding member of Jean-Marie Le Pen's extreme right-wing National Front was fined the equivalent of $1,700 for reprinting and circulating a notorious anti- Semitic libel, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Christian Ricard, 61, was found guilty by the court of justice in the southern Fren- ch town of Rodez. The Protocols, a forgery purporting to expose a Jew- ish plot to rule the world, was written in Paris for the czarist secret police about 100 years ago. Its circulation in France is a criminal offense.